popen and exit code on Windows

[iker.arizmendi at gmail.com]

On UNIX one can use popen* to get a pipe for reading, a pipe for
writing, and the exit code of the child process via a call to close()
on the last pipe. Is there any way, in principle, to simulate such
behaviour on Windows? Some googling reveals that direct use of the
popen* functions on Windows will not do the trick, but are there
indirect ways?

Regards,
Iker